Up close with the dustbin Agni

Photos: Amadeus Photography

Yesterday we showed you the 2010 Agni E1 race bike being campaigned at the TT Zero and suggested its dustbin fairing might not be the ideal solution to aerodynamic efficiency. These new pictures seem to confirm that, the fairing looks like little more than a straight adaptation of shapes last used in the 1950s and no concessions appear to have been made to directing cooling air to the notoriously heat-prone Agni 95 motors. Worse still, there’s no rear fairing, meaning all the huge dustbin does is create an extremely large low pressure area right behind it, this could actually have the effect of sucking the bike backwards, blunting acceleration. It does not look like it’s the product of wind tunnel testing.
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